An Experiment - The First Song You Ever Saw Live

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,365
    Sobelberg8 said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Sobelberg8 said:

    At some point where we got enough data we stopped counting, but these are the top 10 songs from the responses we got that were people’s first song they ever heard. Response number in column one, times opened with in column two.

    the hypothesis going into this was that an overwhelming majority of people witnessed Release as their first ever performance. This has proved our hypothesis correct, but take into account how many more times its been opened with over the other in the top 10 here. Sometimes is likely the most surprising number even though the average fans debut show was anywhere between 1996-2000 and Sometimes as an opener is within that wheelhouse. A lot more data came in after we stopped counting (count all the votes, I know, but this isn’t a real election) so Long Road may have ended up with a higher total than Sometimes. Wash is lower on the list even though it’s been opened with more because more of the times they chose to open with it was in 1991 before many current fans began attending shows.

    Might be interesting to see a column, or another sheet charting the years people responding took in those shows.

    Probably a lot of interesting ways to look at this.  Cool idea for a thread.
    I thought of that but it was a little late, gonna be tough to go back through everything that had people’s participation in. I like the idea because it shows the average era where people started going, which is why you don’t see Pendulum in the top 10 because most fans have been to shows before 2013
    Yep.  And many of the older fans (or at least people who went to earlier shows) would not have heard Release as their first opener, right?  (Based on memory but think they started opening with slower songs later?)
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,818
    Pendulum from 10/20/14.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,649
    ikiT said:
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    Really underrated as an opener. Pops the crowd right away and everyone sings along. 
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  • dc07cf
    dc07cf Posts: 36
    Even Flow, Pittsburgh ‘00
  • mdgsolo
    mdgsolo Posts: 796
    Go
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  • ry75guy
    ry75guy Posts: 229
    Summertime Rolls into Why Go. World Music Theater in Tinley Park, IL ‘92
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  • jstu39
    jstu39 Posts: 149
    ry75guy said:
    Summertime Rolls into Why Go. World Music Theater in Tinley Park, IL ‘92
    Finally someone who was at my first show! 
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    i saw animal open, once only. it was incredible.
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,470
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  • choosetofeel
    choosetofeel Posts: 19
    First Pearl Jam song i ever saw live first was : Oceans - Flinders Park,  Melbourne, Australia 1995.
  • Sobelberg8
    Sobelberg8 Posts: 1,023
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Sobelberg8 said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Sobelberg8 said:

    At some point where we got enough data we stopped counting, but these are the top 10 songs from the responses we got that were people’s first song they ever heard. Response number in column one, times opened with in column two.

    the hypothesis going into this was that an overwhelming majority of people witnessed Release as their first ever performance. This has proved our hypothesis correct, but take into account how many more times its been opened with over the other in the top 10 here. Sometimes is likely the most surprising number even though the average fans debut show was anywhere between 1996-2000 and Sometimes as an opener is within that wheelhouse. A lot more data came in after we stopped counting (count all the votes, I know, but this isn’t a real election) so Long Road may have ended up with a higher total than Sometimes. Wash is lower on the list even though it’s been opened with more because more of the times they chose to open with it was in 1991 before many current fans began attending shows.

    Might be interesting to see a column, or another sheet charting the years people responding took in those shows.

    Probably a lot of interesting ways to look at this.  Cool idea for a thread.
    I thought of that but it was a little late, gonna be tough to go back through everything that had people’s participation in. I like the idea because it shows the average era where people started going, which is why you don’t see Pendulum in the top 10 because most fans have been to shows before 2013
    Yep.  And many of the older fans (or at least people who went to earlier shows) would not have heard Release as their first opener, right?  (Based on memory but think they started opening with slower songs later?)
    That’s turning out to be the case. Most people who participated and said their show debut was from 91-94, the usual answers were Even Flow, Once and Why Go. Especially the 92 crowd that first saw them at Lollapalooza. Release was completely dropped for the festivals that year and was only played maybe 2 dozen times with Dave A in his first year. They played about 90-100 shows in that time period
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  • mrk2
    mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,093
    I don't know which one counts:
    - Last Kiss  (roadie onstage pretending to be Eddie, with Eddie singing offstage). Does it count as "seen"
    - Trouble (Eddie onstage solo preset).
    - Corduroy (First song of Pearl Jam set)
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  • Brotherjohnno9
    Brotherjohnno9 Posts: 463
    Long Road, Manchester, UK 17th August 2009.
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  • raindog80
    raindog80 Reggio Emilia, Italy Posts: 1,221
    Release. Roma 1996. 
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,854
    And the first prize goes to...
    DJ253147 said:
    Corduroy-Honolulu Dec. 9/2006
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  • Fenwick
    Fenwick Posts: 46
    Corduroy, Barrie 1998
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 44,392
    Release

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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    EvenFlow 1992. Don’t remember it. Wanted to see Ice Cube. 
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  • ShanKathy
    ShanKathy Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 320
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  • dimitrispearljam
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    GO - ATHENS 2006
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